Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal praised the House passage of a spending agreement for Fiscal Year 2020 that includes several investments that will better Americans’ lives.
“Today the House of Representatives came together to provide the American people with a bipartisan appropriations package that invests in the economy and every community across the country,” said Chairman Neal. “The votes that we took today will invest in health care, jobs, education and our environment. I am proud of the work that the Ways and Means Committee played in these negotiations.”
The Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations package includes:
• The Family First Transition Act - an unprecedented opportunity to transform our nation’s child welfare system.
• The extension of Medicaid for residents of Puerto Rico.
• The allocation of $25 million for gun violence research.
• The SECURE Act, which strengthens Americans’ retirement security and fixes the provision in the GOP Tax Law that penalized children of fallen soldiers & first responders.
• $36 billion to protect the health and safety of our community and our environment.
• Expanded access for rural communities with more than $640 million to strengthen rural broadband.
• Provides pathways for affordable health care, better schools, and good paying jobs with $185 billion for these priorities and record base funding for Title I schools, Head Start, and the Child Care and Development Block Grant.
• Over $70 million increase in infrastructure and housing projects for Massachusetts.
• Repeal of the medical device tax.
More information on the bills can be found here and here.
